Collocations for detect - verb

early, late
Some cancers can now be cured if they are detected early.

quickly, rapidly
automatically
easily, readily
Some substances can be detected fairly easily.

clearly
accurately, correctly, successfully
consistently, reliably
visually

be able to, be sensitive enough to, can
a machine that is sensitive enough to detect tiny amounts of explosives

be unable to
be designed to
fail to
The test failed to detect any illegal substances.

be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to
be easy to, be possible to
be used to

be capable of detecting sth
a means of detecting sth, a method of detecting sth, a way of detecting sth

Detect is used with these nouns as the subject:
ear, monitor, satellite

Detect is used with these nouns as the object:
cancer, change, crime, deception, deficiency, difference, disease, effect, error, fault, flash, flicker, hint, inconsistency, intruder, irregularity, leak, lump, mine, missile, motion, movement, note, presence, problem, radiation, radioactivity, shift, sign, signal, signature, smell, symptom, trace, trend, vibration, violation, virus, wave, whiff